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Blue Origin currently launches its New Shepard suborbital vehicle from its West Texas launch site and is constructing a launch pad for its orbital New Glenn vehicle at Cape Canaveral LC-36.
Blue Origin’s Launch Site One in West Texas and SpaceX’s Starbase site are examples of spaceports owned and operated by a single company for specific vehicles such as New Shepard and Starship/Super Heavy.
Payloads on NS-27 include new navigation systems developed for New Shepard and New Glenn, two different LIDAR sensors for the Lunar Permanence program, and ultra-wideband proximity operations sensors flown as part of a NASA TechFlights grant with Blue Origin’s Space Systems Development group.
Blue Origin set alternative tentative launch dates for NS-27 including Wednesday, 2024-10-09; Thursday, 2024-10-10; Friday, 2024-10-11 at 9:00 AM EDT (13:00 UTC); and Sunday, 2024-10-13 with various PDT launch windows.
Blue Origin is an American privately funded aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight services company founded by Jeff Bezos with headquarters in Kent, Washington.
Artemis V’s architecture is planned to be reinforced via Blue Origin’s Blue Moon lander instead of Starship.
Blue Origin scheduled an attempted NS-27 uncrewed verification flight for Thursday, 2024-10-10, with a launch window of 6:00 AM to 1:30 PM PDT from West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/Corn Ranch.
Blue Origin set a tentative new launch date for New Shepard-27 on Friday, 2024-10-11, at 9:00 AM EDT (13:00 UTC) from Launch Site One in West Texas.
Blue Origin scheduled an attempted NS-27 uncrewed verification flight for Wednesday, 2024-10-09, with a launch window of 6:00 AM to 1:30 PM PDT from West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/Corn Ranch.
Blue Origin planned an NS-27 uncrewed verification flight for Wednesday, 2024-10-09, with a launch window of 6:00 AM to 1:30 PM PDT.
Blue Origin scrubbed the NS-27 launch on Monday, 2024-10-07 due to a technical issue that would have taken the vehicle outside the available launch window.
The NS-27 launch will take place at Blue Origin’s West Texas Suborbital Launch Site (Corn Ranch) in Van Horn, Texas.
Blue Origin planned to begin the NS-27 webcast 15 minutes prior to liftoff on BlueOrigin.com.
The NS-27 mission was planned to launch from Blue Origin’s West Texas Suborbital Launch Site, also known as Corn Ranch in Van Horn, Texas.
Blue Origin stated that the NS-27 launch window would open at 11:00 AM CDT / 16:00 UTC for one broadcast, and another published launch window time was 8:00 AM CDT / 13:00 UTC.
Lars Hoffman, vice president of government sales at Blue Origin, described the relationship with the FAA as productive and constructive.
Human Landing System landers being developed by SpaceX and Blue Origin will launch using commercial licenses.
NASA encouraged the development of Dream Chaser and Blue Origin but did not fund them for crew launches.
The book incorrectly states that Wally Funk did not go to space due to the altitude reached during Blue Origin's New Shepard flight.
Blue Origin's New Shepard flight in 2021 reached an altitude of 107 kilometers, surpassing the Kármán Line.